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| Abstract : Perpustakaan Tuanku Bainun |
| Assessment practice in Maldivian schools is currently undergoing change. The new draft Maldivian National Curriculum (Education Development Centre, 2012a) and associated documents aim to align assessment, instruction, and curriculum in an effort to optimize learning conditions for students. The support document entitled _Pedagogy and Assessment Guide a Working Document_ highlights the importance of ensuring a balance between assessment _for_ learning (formative assessment) and assessment _of_ learning (summative assessment). Maldivian teachers, who have traditionally placed emphasis on summative assessment practice, will now be required to enhance their use of formative assessment strategies to help diagnose individual student_s strengths and weaknesses and to support future learning. The focus of this article is to identify formative assessment practices Maldivian students may already be experiencing in the lower primary school grades 1to 3.
Keywords: Maldivian Education; Ministry of Education initiatives; assessment change; formative assessment strategies in action; lower primary school grades 1-3. |
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